Text: Pál Makovecz Shortly after Imre Makovecz’s death, in early 2012, the Imre Makovecz Foundation was established to manage his heritage. In addition to family members, colleagues, students, and friends of Imre Makovecz hold and have held positions in this foundation. Meanwhile, Imre Makovecz’s heirs decided to offer the architect’s own house, which he did […]
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The Imre Makovecz Archive
Text: Gábor Kampis When the Imre Makovecz Foundation started their work, they set themselves the goal of creating a digital database that would contain, organize, and thus make searchable all of Imre Makovecz’s plans, graphic works, writings, and objects that could be found and were available in the Archive, as well as audio and video […]
A Couple of Personal Memories
Text: Gábor Mezei In the mid-1960s, interior designer Gábor Mezei met Imre Makovecz while working as a designer for SZÖTERV, and was deeply impressed by his approach to style. Following Makovecz’s example, he also rebelled against the monotony and dullness of modernist industrial architecture and began to design in his own unique style. With his […]
One Hundred and Eleven Footnotes about Imre Makovecz
Text: Benjamin Makovecz In his poetically beautiful writing, Benjamin Makovecz attempts to describe the slowly unfolding and ever increasingly intimate relationship between father and son from the early 1960s until 2011, the year of Imre Makovecz’s death. The writer’s perspective is that of a „young boy from Pest”, and the tone of his writing is […]
The London Pavilion
Text: László György Sáros In 1997, Prince Charles (now King Charles III of Great Britain) asked Imre Makovecz to design an “exhibition” in Westminster, in Embankment Park beside the River Thames. Makovecz was to present in a pavilion what he had achieved as an architect, thinker, and teacher at the head of the school he […]
Imre Makovecz: Experiments – Buildings. The Architecture and Artworks of Imre Makovecz in the 1960s and 1970s
Text: Katalin Keserü The architecture and artworks fine art of Imre Makovecz – and primarily the early period of his school – as well as its monographic processing and analysis have remained virtually unknown so far. Katalin Keserü’s study undertook the task of revealing them, focusing on the 1960s and 1970s. Back in the 1960s, […]